A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

recurved, recurvate (Eng.adjj.): “bent, but not rolled, backwards” (Lindley); “curved backward or downward” (Jackson); “curved downward or backward” (Fernald); (fungi) “curved backward or downward; (of a pileus), convex-expanded” (S&D);(in bryology) “curved downward (abaxially) and inward; in leaves, referring to margins, apices, or marginal teeth; in peristome teeth curved outward and more or less downward” (Magill 1990); (fungi) (as ‘recurvate’, q.v.) “recurved, bent back, curved backward or downward” (S&D)

[> L. recurvus,-a,-um (adj.A), turned back, bent, crooked, or curved back; syn, reduncus, repandus; cf. recurvo,-atum 1. To bend or curve backwards, to turn back (Lewis & Short): recurvatus,-a,-um (part.A), recurvus,-a,-um (adj.A), also retrocurvus,-a,-um (adj.A); opp. incurved; see hooked, incurved, revolute;

- petalum inferius superioribus vix longíus, lanceolatum, ápice paullum recurvo (Swartz), the lower petal scarcely longer than the upper [ones], lanceolate, with the apex just a little recurved.

- margine vetustate et late elevata et irregulariter undulata in acie huius primo plerumque incurva vel revoluta, deinde decurva instructus, provided with a margin in old age both broadly uplifted and irregularly undulate on the edge of this at first usually incurved or revolute, then decurved.

- marginibus exstantibus ve involutis rariusque superne parum recurvis, with the margins projecting or inrolled and more rarely above somewhat recurved.

NOTE: cygneus,-a,-um (adj.A): relating to swans, curved suddenly downwards like a swan's neck.

reflexus,-a,-um (part.A): reflexed, bent abruptly backwards at more than 90*; “curved backwards excessively” (Lindley).

refractus,-a,-um (part.A): bent or curved back abruptly and strongly or sharply; “curved back suddenly” (Lindley).

replicatus,-a,-um (adj.A), replicativus,-a,-um (adj.A): turned or folded back upon itself so that the upper and lower parts come together; “when the upper part of a leaf is curved back and applied to the lower, as in the Aconite” (Lindley).

squarrose-recurved, spreading at right angles, with the tips curved downward, as in leaves on a moss stem: squarroso-recurvatus,-a,-um (part.A), squarroso-recurvus,-a,-um (adj.A).

anfractus,-a,-um (part.A): winding, bending, crooked.